Care Coordinator (LCSW) - Simms Mann Center

Under supervision of Center Director and Clinical Director,
this role functions as a team member of a Simms Mann Center, providing
comprehensive psychosocial care to patients with cancer and their families,
providing direct case management, resource navigation, and direct care
delivery. Provides culturally-competent direct social work services,
including assessment, intervention, and recommendations to individual patients
and their families often from marginalized, sociodemographically under represented,
and under-resourced areas.

The Care Coordinator will be viewed as the primary source
of informational support with regard to resources. This role participates in
interdisciplinary activities, complies with departmental standards regarding
attendance, documentation, continuous quality improvement, statistics,
departmental policies and procedures, and follows the Code of Ethics.
Identifies patients, responds to referrals and meets the wide range of needs of
the Simms/Mann, transitional and Bowyer oncology patients. Provides
referrals for economic, psychological, social, hospice, and home health care as
needed. Provides comprehensive resources and facilitation of access to
resources for various psychosocial stressors and needs. The Care Coordinator
will focus on providing essential assistance to patients with regard to
transition of care into the community, working closely with their primary
clinician, addressing variables that will help improve overall quality of life
and reacclimation into their community.

In addition, the Care Coordinator responsibilities include,
but are not limited to: charting all contacts in an electronic medical record,
working in a complex medical system and assists patients in navigating that
system,provides other related services that promote the Simms Mann Center
and improve the quality of life of the patient and family touched by cancer, develops
a thorough familiarity with Simms Mann Center and community resources in order
to help patients locate what they need, administers/utilizes screening tools to
develop appropriate interventions and resources, participates in program
evaluation and development, works with other oncology professionals to promote
quality of life of patients. They will also update and screen the Center's
resource referral network and website and select appropriate information,
websites and resources to be made accessible to patients. The Care Coordinator
is expected to participate in program development and participate in training
of interns and volunteers.

Additional responsibilities as needed, including but not
limited to, serving in clinical consultant role for California End of Life Act
as per UCLA policy, travel to multiple UCLA oncology clinics, and conducting a
therapeutic support groups.

Salary Range: $108,451.00 - 129,623.00 Annually

Required:

• Master's
  degree in social work and licensed in California (LCSW).
• Knowledge
  of psychosocial and other rehabilitation related problems that arise in
  individuals with cancer at all phases of their disease and treatments.
  Knowledge of the extensive resources available in the community for
  patients impacted by cancer. Experience navigating or helping people
  navigate medical clinic, insurance, and social services.
• Knowledge
  of the most common cancers (e.g. breast, colon, prostate, lung and
  gynecologic) and their treatments.
• Knowledge
  of psychosocial distress screening instruments. Ability to formulate assessments
  of psychosocial needs of individuals with cancer. Ability to put
  these skills to use.
• Skills
  and knowledge to assess, identify and connect to appropriate psychosocial
  support resources and interventions.
• Skills
  required to facilitate family communication, and acute assessment of
  psychosocial needs of patients and loved ones.
• Skill
  in using computer database software to maintain and update resource
  referral network, all patient tracking, rehabilitation needs using
  software such as an Electronic Medical Record such as CareConnect with
  appropriate class work.
• Ability
  to identify referral sources and to provide referrals for economic,
  psychosocial and home health care programs.
• Knowledge
  and ability to function as a team member, working with other staff social
  workers and clinicians to develop patient groups, lectures and other
  programs.
• Skill
  in completing and entering patient notes, tracking forms and consultation
  notes at appropriate intervals into database.
• Ability
  to understand the mission of the Simms/Mann - UCLA Center for Integrative
  Oncology and to implement its objectives for the delivery of patient care.
• Ability
  to function as a team member.
• Ability
  to adapt to changing priorities including seeing patients at multiple
  sites, under various conditions, without a specific office.
• Ability
  to synthesize ideas to solve problems.
• Interpersonal
  skills to interact effectively with patients and medical staff including
  physicians and nurses to function as a team member.
• Ability
  to convey warmth and caring in interpersonal interactions with patients
  and other members of the team.
• Knowledge
  of IBM-compatible computers -facility with Windows and the Internet.
• Demonstrated
  ability in searching the Internet and in determining appropriateness of
  cancer-related information found on the Internet for patient use
• Ability
  to provide clinical knowledge to less experienced clinicians including
  developing didactic trainings, evaluating students, field instructor
  accreditation.

Preferred:

• Experience
  and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient
  medical environments with some exposure to oncology.
• Experience
  working as a liaison with inpatient/outpatient units and community
  agencies. Ability to collaborate with external community resources to
  enhance the referral network for patients in Hem/Onc.
• Knowledge
  of bereavement and the impact of grief during assessments.
• Knowledge,
  skill and ability to work autonomously using specific software programs
  such as Word, Excel, Outlook and any other programs for EMR.
• Familiarity
  with CareConnect or other EPIC-based electronic medical record software.